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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
I have been approached by a friend who is soon to graduate with a CS degree to outline him a reasonable 200-500 hour project. What we have come up with is an ebook formating program, written in C++, using QT, and thinking in epub. Its main goal is to be able to replace book designer as a more plug-in friendly opensource project. So as we are building the project outline and specification, and coming up with use cases, what would the community like to see in such a tool?
I am well aware of the talent in both programing and formating we have here, so I am excited to see what we come up with.  |
Although some might say that BookDesigner needs improvement, it's performing it's task....
I would suggest an alternative project (that has been tinkering in my own mind for some weeks now): a working e-book (file) manager.
Here is my problem: I have some 1000's e-books in various formats.
1: help to organize the files on my file system: author-folder\author - series/title - title - version
2: batch file rename with some help from external sources: author / title-database
3: identify duplicate formats (allow margin for ie. txt files)
4: create an XML-formatted - database: /author/series/series-readingorder/title/read or not/genre/cover-art/publish-year @story-type(short story/novel) @fiction @version @reader-format (txt/doc/prb/imp/html ...) @filename @file-path
(when @filename is missing then this becomes a "whish" ?)
5: import into database using all information that is stored in the file-path and file-name crossmatching author name variations, title variations, part of a series etc.)
5a: identify duplicates
6: Create/Manage Authors-Database with: genre - personal preference ranking
7: bulk update database with genre info using a separate Author database
8: Bulk - retrieve description/cover-art based on title & author from external sources like Amazon or ISFDB or Barnes & Nobles etc ...
9: "random" suggestion based on read/books read from same author/reading priority/genre
.....
I have use vBookSorter by Vangelis Dimou that handles some file management, but I haven't found ANY e-book manager that is able to extract all the information stored in the filename itself (like a proper MP3 library does)
My EbookManager is in itself very stupid as it stores all filenames as title's and it has no proper way to extract the author from the folder-name or the file-name....
These are just my requirements for a proper e-book management programme and I am eager to learn what people use now - or have other wishes for such a tool.